ASAFŒTIDA.
Ferula Asafœtida, Linn. Nat. order,
Umbelliferæ. Common name (German), Stinkasand. Preparation, Tincture of the gum.
Authorities.
1, Franz,
Collection Archiv., 1, 3, 195 (provings by Stapf, Gross, and Hahnemann); 2, Voigtel, ibid. (from Syst. d. Arzm.); 3,
Provings by Jöerg and his class (Jöerg Materialien), symptoms obtained from the crude
drug; 4, Lemke, N. Z. f. h. Kl., 13, 129, proving with
crude drug; 5, Dr. Boas, Casp. Wach., 1841 (external
application in a plaster); 6, Jahr, A. H. Z., 15, 63.
MIND.
► Very irritable in
disposition, and yet indifferent to everything, [1].
► Fretful and apprehensive mood, which seems to arise
from the abdomen; it is, however, not difficult to fix his attention (second day), [1]. ► Ill-humored, and
dislike for work (thirtieth hour), [1].
HEAD.
► Vertigo, [1], [2], [3]. ► Slight vertigo, [3]. ► Turning in the
head (third hour), [1]. ►
Confusion of the head, with pressure in the temples (first day), [1]. ► Dulness of the head, [3]. ► Head dull and
confused, [3]. [10.]
► Heaviness, fulness, and confusion of the head, followed
by aching headache over the whole brain, [3]. ► Heaviness of the head, [3].
► Headache, [3]. ► Aching in the brain, [3].
► With steady heat and pressure in the head there was a
sensation of momentary unconsciousness when sitting and reading, [4]. ► Continued headache,
becoming alternately more severe and slighter, [3]. ► During the night when awaking, and in the morning, some pains
in the joints and bones of the head, [4]. ► Weakness in the head (three-quarters of an hour), [1]. ► Headache, like an
emptiness in the head, which attracts the attention (first day), [1]. ► Fulness in the head, [3]. [20.] ► After sleeping well, awoke with fulness of the head, which
gradually changed to periodically recurring pains, lasting more or less into the next night,
[3]. ► Fulness of
the head, changing gradually into an aching and pressing pain, as if the whole brain were
compressed, attended with dizziness, increased heat of skin, and some quickness of pulse, [3]. ► Fulness of the
head, with frequent stitches of pain in the forehead and temples, [3]. ► The brain seems to be
tense, [1]. ► Rush
of blood to the head, and warmth of the face (first day), [1].
► Congestion of the head, with heat of the face and
headache, [3]. ►
Severe pressure on small places of the skull, [4]. ► Pain in the forehead, [4].
► Frontal headache, [1].
► Headache, more particularly on the left side of the
forehead, [3]. [30.]
► Heat in the forehead and face, with chills in the back,
and cold hands off and on (three and a half hours), [4].
► Sense of tensive confusion and burdensome heaviness of
the forehead (after frequent smelling it), [1]. ► Frequent drawing in the forehead, [4]. ► *Drawing, wavelike pressure,
through the left half of the forehead, which ends in a dull pressure on the frontal eminence,
[1]. ► *Pressive pain
in the forehead (sixth hour) ►► *Pressive
pain in the forehead from within outward (fifth hour), [1]. ► Pressure externally in the
forehead (first hour), [1]. ►
Especially hard to bear is a pressure in the forehead and maxilla, [4]. ► Pressive pain in the right
side of the forehead from within outward (one hour and three-quarters), [1]. ► A slow, intermitting ache
(like a pushing out) beneath the right frontal eminence, [1].
[40.] ► Pressure on
the forehead in different places, sometimes combined with stitching pains, [4]. ► Pressure in the forehead,
with weakness in the whole body (two hours and a half), [1].
► Tearing pains in the forehead, [4]. ► Fine needle stitches in the
left frontal eminence, [1]. ►
*Single, sudden, and deep-penetrating stitches under the left frontal eminence, like shocks,
followed by some sensitiveness, [1]. ► Swashing and gurgling sensation in the brain, beneath the
upper part of the frontal bone (second day), [1]. ► Near the frontal eminence externally, continued burning
stinging, which disappears on touch, and pains as if ulcerated, but immediately disappears
(second day), [1]. ►
Tearing in the right temple, [4]. ► Pressing asunder in both temples, sometimes very severely, [4]. ► Pressure in the right
temple (one hour and a quarter), [1]. [50.] ► A transient dull
pressure over the right temple, suddenly, [1]. ► *Pressure in the left temple, from within outward
(sixty-eighth hour), [1]. ►
*A sudden pain in the left temple, like an inward-pressing pointed plug, [1]. ► Intermitting
pressing-inwards in the left temple, almost like a pushing inward, [1]. ► Slow, excessive, dull
stitches in the left temple, [1]. ► Single, deep stitches in the left temple, [1]. ► Sensation of pressure on
the vertex, [1]. ►
A pressure exactly on the vertex, and on the forehead over the right eye, [4]. ► *Pains in the left side of the
head, extending to the eyes, and changing into intermitting, severe and slight
fulness of the brain, [3]. ►
Stupefying tension in the head, especially in the left side, [1].
[60.] ► In the right
side of the head above the ear, a drawing, which changes into a
simple sticking, [1]. ►
Pressive pain on the right side of the head (thirtieth hour), [1].
► *Pressure in the left side of the head from within outwards
(forty-fifth hour), [1]. ►
A suddenly beginning, rapidly increasing pressure on the left side of the head, as from a
dull tool being pressed in; it suddenly goes away, [1].
► *Pain in the right parietal bone, as from a deeply
penetrating plug, [1]. ► Aching pain in the occiput, gradually extending over the
head, as if the brain were compressed by a cloth thrown over it, [3]. ► Drawing pain in the
occiput, [4]. ►
Drawing and pressure in the occiput, [4]. ► Pressure on the left side of the occiput (nine hours and a
half), [1]. ► A
couple of fine, superficial stitches on the right side of the occiput, [1].
EYES.
[70.] ► Causes trouble in the eyes, [2].
► *Troublesome dryness of the eyes, [1]. ► Periodic burning in the eyes,
and pressing together of the lids, as if overcome with sleep (twenty-sixth hour),
[1]. ► Pressure in
both eyes (second day), [1]. ►
Aching over the eyes, as if from great sleepiness, [3].
► Burning stinging in the left eye (two and one-quarter
hours), [1]. ►
Rough feeling of the eyes, as if sand were under the lids, [3].
► Itching in right eye (forty-ninth hour), [1]. ► Burning in the
left brow (thirty-second hour), [1]. ► *Severe boring pain above the eyebrows, [4]. [80.] ►
Pinching drawing across the supraorbital region (first hour), [1].
► Dull pressure on the external margin of the orbit, [1]. ► Twitchings in the
left upper eyelids, [4]. ►
Often a twitching movement in the upper lid, [1]. ► Frequent burning in the right eyelid, [4]. ► Burning in the edges of the
right eyelid, [4]. ►
Burning in the inner corner of the right eye, [4]. ► A transient, dull pressure in the middle of the upper lid, [1]. ► Stitching and
itching of the eyelids, [4]. ►
Stitching and itching in the edges of the eyelids, [4].
[90.] ► Itching,
stitching and burning in the lids, especially the right, [4].
► *Burning in the right ball (twelfth hour), [1]. ► Tensive burning in
the right ball (twenty-sixth hour), [1]. ► *Burning in the left ball, as from within outward (five
and a half hours), [1]. ►
Burning stinging in the right ball (sixty-second hour), [1].
► Some dilatation of the pupils, [3]. ► Dimness of sight [3]. ► A kind of dimness
of the eyes; on writing, the letters become darker, as from a slight veil over them;
disappears after some blinking, [1]. ► Muscæ volitantes, [4].
EARS.
► Strong heat of the
ears, which burn, and are very red, [4]. [100.] ► Drawing behind the
left ear, [4]. ►
Slight transient drawing on the outer rim of the concha of right ear, [1]. ► Drawing and stitches around
the left ear, [4]. ►
Repeated short drawing in the meatus auditorius, [1]. ► Pressive pain in the right ear (forty-nine hours), [1]. ► Pressure in the
left ear (two and a half hours), [1]. ► Dull sensibility, especially dull hearing, forenoon; he hears
nothing distinctly, must always ask a second time (first day), [1]. ► Clear ringing before the
ear, [1].
NOSE.
► Violent sneezing
several times a day, [1]. ►
Coryza (thirty-sixth hour), [1]. [110.] ► Pressure in the nose,
as if it would burst, especially in the right wing (thirty-one hours), [1].
FACE.
► Heat of the face
and ear continues, and with hot hands, chills run down the back, [4]. ► Heat in the face, even the
ears feel hot, [4]. ►
Pressure in the right side of the face from within outward (half an hour), [1]. ► Heat in the cheeks, [4]. ► Severe heat in the
cheeks, perceptible to the touch, [4]. ► Frequent flushes of heat over the cheeks, afternoon (first
day), [1]. ► Heat
of the cheeks and forehead, with heaviness, [4]. ► Stinging burning in left cheek (four and a half hours), [1]. ► Itching in the
right cheek (seventy-two hours), [1]. [120.] ► Stitches in the skin
of the left cheek, then on the right, [4]. ► Pressure on the zygomatic bone, [4]. ► Drawing pain in the left
cheek, [4]. ►
Pressure in the left cheek (twenty-four hours), [1]. ► *In various places in the face, on the malar bone, the nasal bones,
painless tension, with a kind of numb sensation, [1].
► On the left angle of the chin, in a small area, a numb
pressure, which extends into the tooth right above it, [1].
► Pain in the maxillary joints, [3]. ► A transient pain, like a
continuous pinch, on the ramus of the lower jaw, [1]. ► Drawing in the left lower maxilla, [4]. ► Drawing in the right lower
maxilla, then in the right forehead, [4]. [130.] ► Pressure in the
maxillary joint, [4]. ►
Severe pressure in the left corner of the maxilla, [4].
MOUTH.
► Bluntness of the
teeth, [4]. ►
Severe drawing in the lower incisors, [4]. ► Soreness of the gums, [3].
► Great dry sensation in the mouth, though he has
moisture enough (first day), [1]. ► Burning in the mouth, throat, and stomach, [3]. ► A biting-burning pain on
the point of the tongue, frequently repeated, [4]. ► Stitches in the point of the tongue, [4]. ► Accumulation of spittle, [3]. [140.] ► Accumulation of saliva in the mouth, [4]. ► Salivation, [3]. ► Continual running of saliva
in the mouth, [4]. ►
Insipid taste, [3]. ►
The taste (of the drug) is not only nauseous, but also harsh and hard, and hard to be got
out of the mouth, [4]. ►
Fatty, rancid taste in the mouth, [3]. ► Rancid taste in the mouth, as if the stomach had been
disordered by rich and fatty food, [3].
THROAT.
► Dryness in the
throat; while swallowing, tension in it (twelve hours), [1].
► *In the evening, a
hysterical rising in the throat, as if a ball or large body ascended from the stomach to the
œsophagus, or even pharynx, obliging him repeatedly to
attempt to swallow it, [3]. ► With constriction of the throat, pressure in the chest
(sixty-three hours), [1]. [150.]
► Drawing along down the left side of the throat, on
motion (first day), [1]. ►
Spasms in the œsophagus, [3]. ► *Spasm of the œsophagus, like that of hysteria, [3]. ► Hysteric rising in
the œsophagus, [3]. ►
*Sensations as if the peristaltic motion were reversed, and, in the œsophagus were being
driven from the stomach up towards the throat, [3].
► Aching and burning in the œsophagus and throat,
resembling heartburn, like that after eating too much fatty food, [3].
STOMACH.
► Appetite
increased, [3]. ►
Hunger with nausea, [4]. ►
Hunger, with desire for strong cooling food, [4]. ► Loss of appetite, [3]. [160.] ► Appetite poor, [3]. ► Aversion to beer,
it tastes slimy (first day), [1]. ► Constant eructations of air having the taste of garlic, [4]. ► Frequent
eructations tasting of the drug, [4]. ► Eructations, [3]. ► Frequent offensive eructations, [3]. ► Eructations followed by
nausea and disgust for food, [3]. ► Frequent garlic-like eructations, [3]. ► Frequent eructations with
the garlicky smell of the remedy, [3]. ► Eructations, [3]. [170.] ► Frequent eructations,
[3]. ► Eructations
with profuse accumulations of saliva, [3]. ► Disgust and nausea, [3].
► Nausea, [1], [3]. ► *Distension of the
stomach and bowels, with a feeling as if the peristaltic motions were reversed, with much
spasmodic working in the œsophagus, [3]. ► Pain in left side of the stomach, [3]. ► Increased warmth and aching
in the stomach, toward the left side, not at all to the right, but more up into the
œsophagus, like the globus hystericus, [3]. ► Continuous and acute pain
in the stomach, [3]. ►
Stomachache in alternating exacerbations and remissions, [3].
[180.] ► Stomachache
in intermittent paroxysms, [3]. ►
Aching and distending pain as if from flatulence in the stomach and œsophagus, extending
more toward the spleen than the liver, [3]. ► Feeling as if the stomach had been disordered by indigestible
fatty food, [3]. ►
Intermittent pains in the stomach and abdomen, [3]. ► Burning in the stomach and diaphragm, [3]. ► Burning in the stomach, [3]. ► Aching in the
stomach, [3]. ►
Sickly sensation in the pit of the stomach, like pressure, not exactly painful, [4]. ► Aching and drawing
pain in the stomach, extending first toward the spleen, and afterward in the direction of
the liver, increased on full inspiration, [3]. ► *Perceptible pulsation in the pit of the stomach (first
day), [1]. [190.] ► Pulsation in the pit of the stomach, even perceptible to the
finger (second day), [1]. ►
Violent pressive pain in the pit of the stomach, extending towards the liver region, when
sitting (first day), [1]. ►
Pressure in the epigastric region shortly after eating (first day), [1]. ► Pressure in the epigastric
region, with great dejection after eating (second day), [1].
ABDOMEN.
► Griping (into a ball) pain below the navel when standing (first day), [1]. ► Pressive pain at
the navel, extending outward (twenty-one hours), [1]. ► Burning sticking in the umbilicus (twenty-nine hours), [1]. ► Crawling sticking
in the umbilical region (four hours), [1]. ► Fine pointed stitches in the navel (two and a half hours), [1]. ► *In the flanks a
pressive pain on drawing in the abdominal muscles (first day), [1]. [200.] ►
Abdomen distended, [3]. ►
*Great distension of the abdomen, [3]. ► All the symptoms disappeared in the evening except the
distension of the abdomen, [3]. ►
Great distension of the abdomen, notwithstanding frequent discharges of flatus, [3]. ► Remarkable
distension of the abdomen, somewhat after a hard, dark, very pungent and offensive stool,
causing pain in rectum, [3]. ►
Rumbling in the bowels, [3]. ►
Violent rumbling in the bowels, [3]. ► Rumbling in the intestines (eleven hours), [1]. ► Painless rumbling in the
intestines (one and a half hours), [1]. ► Bellyache, with violent movements and rumbling in the bowels,
[3]. [210.] ► Discharge of flatulence, [3].
► Increased passage of flatus, [1]. ► Easy, sometimes almost or
quite involuntary passage of flatus, which is scarcely noticed, [1]. ► Many expulsions of
offensive flatulence, [3]. ►
Much very offensive flatulence, with retained stool, [3].
► Much retained flatulence, which only passed off the
following morning, with a half-diarrhœic evacuation, [3].
► Relief from time to time, by discharge of offensive
flatus, [3]. ►
Sensation of the greatest illness in the whole abdomen, with great heaviness and pressure in
the sides (second day), [1]. ►
*Pain in the upper abdomen, as from taking cold, and as if diarrhœa would ensue, with a
kind of ravenous hunger (second day), [1]. ► Drinking disagrees, causes immediate heaviness, and chilling
sensation in the intestines (first day), [1]. [220.] ► Burning in abdomen, [1]. ► Flatulent pain in
abdomen when walking after dinner (first day), [1]. ► Tension in the abdomen, after eating, as if he had overfed
(second day), [1]. ►
Pinching in the intestines (six hours), [1]. ► Gripings with flatulence (one hour), [1]. ► Intermitting griping in the
upper abdomen, [1]. ►
Violent cutting pains in the bowels, [3]. ► Cutting pinching in the intestines (twenty-three hours), [1]. ► Cutting in the
abdomen when walking or sitting, [4]. ► Sticking gripings in the left side of abdomen (twelve hours),
[1]. [230.] ► Violent colic pains, with rumbling in the bowels, [3]. ► Pinching drawing
across the abdomen, extending outwards (second day), [1].
► In the morning, sensation in the epigastric region, and in
the whole abdomen, as if it were all beaten, with sense of fulness in the former, and
eructations (second day), [1]. ► Itching in the skin of the abdomen, below the navel (five
hours), [1]. ►
Stitches extending from within outward, in both sides of the abdomen, while sitting, after
eating; disappears on pressure (second day). ► Sticking
from within outward in left side of abdomen (seventy hours), [1].
► Sudden, jerklike, violent stitch from the right side of
the abdomen, from within outward, toward the parietes (first day), [1]. ► Stitches in the left side
of the abdomen, when walking (first day), [1]. ► Pointed stitches in the left side of the abdomen, externally,
which go away completely on rubbing (three and a half hours), [1].
► Clucking stitch in the left side of the abdomen,
extending outwards, with flatulence (sixty-two hours), [1].
[240.] ► Attacks of
slight griping in the lower abdomen (half an hour), [1].
► Laborlike cutting and forcing pains in the lower part
of the bowels, in the region of the uterus, [3]. ► On the left side of the lower abdomen, violent sticking and
drawing, which extends along the inner side of the ilium, when sitting (second day), [1]. ► Violent stitch in
the lower abdomen (two and a half hours), [1]. ► Itching sticking in the skin of the right side of the lower
abdomen (five hours), [1].® 2000
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